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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

THOMAS W. HARVEY, 0F NEW YORK,VN. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 JOHN B. TERRY.

MACHINE FOR STICKING PINS.

specification of Letters Patent No. 10,385, datediJanuay 3, 1854.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. HARVEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Sticking Pins into Paper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing,v

making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1, is a plan of the machine. Fig. 2, is a vertical section; Fig. 3, is a plan of the crimping jaws, and Fig. 4, is a side elevation.

The like mark of reference designate the same parts in all the figures.

The nat-ure of my invention consists in cutting off by means of a slide or its equivalent one row of pins from the conductors, so that one pin from the supply in each conductor is dropped, to be taken out by forceps and stuck into the paper.

A, is the bed of the machine.

a, is the driving shaft, propelled by any competent power, and sustained in standards 1, on the bed.

The paper to be crimped and receive the pins is supplied from a roll B, and the paper with the pins thereon is drawn away to cause the requisite feed, by means of the drum C and apron driven by a ratchet wheel as now usual.

2, 2, are slides on the bed A, receiving by a cross bar the .double crimping blades b, 5, and c, is a single blade similarly set on a cross bar in the slides 2, entering between the blades Z, when `each cross bar and their blades attached are given al motion in the slides 2, the bar and blades b, being moved by arms 4, entering slots in the cross bar and attached `to a shaft 3, that is given a partial rotary motion by an arm 5, to a cam 6, on the main shaft a, which cam b, is of such a shape that at the proper time the end of the arm clears the cam allowing a spring 7 to throwback the blades b, outof the way. A similar attachment and motion is applied to the blade c, 8, being the shaft with arms 9 to move the blades and 10, is the arm to the cam 11, 12, being the returning spring. y

d, and e, are a pair of jaws one above and the other below the blader', and so formed as to allow the motion of this blade; the jaws being kept open by a springm. lIhe `jaws Z and e, are set on center pins 13 and l-l, and provided with arms f and g, with` i pins or rollers on their ends, on each-side of the shaft a, which pins and arms are operated on by cams 15 and 16, on oppositeV sides ofthe shaft a, by which the moving ends of the jaws are forced together.

The parts being timed and the paper being led in as shown in Fig. 2, the blades b, and c, approach each other by the rotation of the shaft a, the blade c, passing within the blades Z), forms the required center fold,lat the same time the jaws CZ and e, commence to impinge on each side of the blades b,

folding the paper; at this moment the cam 11, passes the end of the arm 10, and the spring 12, throws the center blade out of the way; and at the moment the requisite pressure is obtained on the paper by the jaws cl, and c, the cam 6, passes the end of the arm 5, and its spring 7, throws the blades similar to the old hand bar to support theV paper as the pinspass through.

In Fig. 6, the center bar 1s shown' station-S y i ary instead of being movable, the blades b, passing on each side of the bar and rthe jaws (l and e, holding the paper on each side of the stationary aw, which arrangement isa mere substitute for thevcenter blade c.

, L, is a cam on the end of the shaft a, with a pin'17 in its face that each revolution of` 'y the shaft gives a slight motion to a lever 18, on a fulcrum` 19, v,the opposite end of which takes the end of a sliding bar or rod 20, that is supported by guides on, and is let into the face of the conductors a', rwhich .y f

conductors are formed as usual to pass the shaft of the pin. and suspend it by the head and arein number corresponding to the 'Y 105' numbero'f pins to; be stuck in each' row,

the pins being supvplied'by a shaking hopper or hoppers any manner similar` to that now 1n use.k v

TheL bar o r rod 20,

per part of the conductors, and madel wit holes through the bar, andfongthelgedlg y j isptvi'aa `Waag-, notches'in the edge that s'et against-theupthe bar are points corresponding in number to the number ofw conducto-rs, shownlarge size in F ig. 7, which points slide in a groove beneath thev surface e of thel conductors. As the rod is given an endwise motion these points enter above and behind the pins of the lower row as they stand in the conductors and prevent any more from, descending; the row of pins thus cut 01T pass into the notches in the bar and drop through the holes in the'same into the lower part of the conductors, and on the bar` going back the blank part of the barV comes oppo-site the ends of the conductors stopping thepins from passing, thus depositing one row of pinseach revolution of the shaft.

ZJ, is a lever see Fig. 4, with a pin 22, op-` erated on by the edge of the cam L, and 23, isa spring to ke'ep'the lever to the cam. e Z, is a` rod connecting the lever to an arm 24, on' a cross shaft m, supported in stand- 'ards 25.

n, is a bed fixed on the shaft 1n, receiving a sliding bed o. e a

26, is a bar attached by springs to the lower end of the bed n, so that when the parts are in the position sho-wn in Fig., 2, theY bed 26, sets against the ends of the con ductors'z'. The upper edge of the bar 26, and the lower edge ofthe bed o, are inclined as shown, for a purpose hereafter set forth.

f 27'is a lholdingrjaw on a fulcrum 28, and 29'is aspring to keep the jaw open when not otherwise acted on. l

30, is a spring latch on the upper end of e the side of the holding jaw, which sides are connected by the bar p.'

',3l,is a catch attached to the shaft m, in` such aposition and of such alength that when the bar tj), is forced toward the bed n, tlie'latch 30, springs beliindthe face of the catch, the holding jaw 27 at the same time being made to pass beneath the heads of the pins 'and' retain'them as depositedgby the concliictors,ftheheads'being beneath and within a grooveacrossthe lower edge f the bed 0.; The holding jaw and parts `con-` nected are actuatedby an arm 32, on across shaft Q', with'afle'ver 33,'1noved at the right time 'by apin 34, on the shaft a.'

r, is a bent leveron a fulcrum 35, the upper end beingforinedas a slot to take a prolongation of the fulcrum pin 28.

36, is ay pin or camron the shaft a, to actu- `ate this lever, and 37, isla spring to return the parts.

The operation Yof the stitching motion is' as follows; the parts being properly timed relatively to the crimping. V'lhepinsfbeing deposited as before described against the bar 26, and with the heads in the groove `across the loweredge of the slidingbed 0',

the. arm 32,` moved by itsA cam 34;, Non the shaft. a, forcesthe harp, toward the` bed n, and Athe spring latch 30, holds the parts in place, the jaw 27 retaining the pins; atthis (the inclined lower edgeof vwhich forces the spring` bar 26, back outv of the way) sticking'the pins into the" paper and forcing them down below thelower edge of the Vspring bar 26, atthisA moment the point of the spring latch 30, sliding with the bed o, descend below the lower edge of the` retaining catch 31, allowing thel spring 29" to remove the jaw 27 from its hold of the'pins `and the cam 36, clearing the lever 7'the spring slides `the bed 0, up again and the pin 22, lpassingoff the outer circleof the cam 7i, the spring 23, brings the parts back ready to receive another row of pins and i again perform the motions as before detailed.

It will be evident that if the pins should not be held parallel to each, other when passing in the forceps from the end ofthe conductors "to their vertical position for sticking, a comb may be fitted to take `the shafts of the pins near their heads below the clampV 27, and by asliding motion to near their points straighten them, and bring i them into the position for sticking.

It will be evident that the cams and parts that operate on the crimping jaws, and `on the holding jaws d and e, may bevaried to suitv the circumstances, and that the jaws for crimping and'holding the paper `may be placed vertically instead of horizontally and be used with any other means for sticking the pins, and also that the method of carrying a rowof pins from the ends of aseries of inclined conductors may be used with any other character ofcrimping bars or blades. `What I desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s to pass down the conductors by means-of a vibrating slide or its equivalent so as `to supply one row of pins at a time by the conductors to the forceps as specied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my `signature this seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

Vitnesses:

` HARVEY LAWRENCE, H. A. HARVEY.

I claim allowing one 4pin at a time H Trios. w. HARVEY. i 

